Recording of a roundtable discussion session, sponsored by George Washington University's Medieval and Early Modern Studies Institute, mediated by Jeffrey J. Cohen, and held at the 46th International Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo, Michigan) on 12 May 2011. The roundtable features remarks by Laurie Finke ("The Parliament of Things"), Julie Orlemanski ("Things Without Faces"), Valerie Allen ("Medieval Nets"), Elizabeth Blake ("Passionate Matter"), Kellie Robertson ("Remediating Matter"), and Lowell Duckert ("The Ice Age Is Never Over").